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Of the many challenges facing post-secondary students, the University of Lethbridge has long worked to make sure food scarcity does not impact their ability to achieve their academic goals. Bringing together a long-established network of food-related initiatives from across campus, the newly launched Nourish program is the next step in ensuring U of L students are well fed in their pursuit of excellence.

The top University of Lethbridge team took fifth place in the recent Rocky Mountain Regional Programming Contest. “Our top team solved the same number of problems as the top two University of Alberta teams and the top University of Calgary team, only losing to the other Alberta schools by penalty minutes,” says Dr. Howard Cheng, team coach and a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. “We were certainly competitive against the other Alberta schools, the University of Saskatchewan and a number of larger American schools.”

The University of Lethbridge has several events lined up this week that may be of interest to your readers, viewers and listeners. Members of the media who are interested in covering these events are encouraged to contact the individual event organizer directly. Petting Zoo Monday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., The Grove U of L Enrolment Services is hosting a petting zoo to give students the opportunity to take a break from their studies and spend time with some furry friends.

WHAT: Members of the Dhillon School of Business’s Integrated Management Experience (IME) program will be volunteering at the Interfaith Food Bank WHEN: Monday, Nov. 4, 2019 from 9 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Interfaith Food Bank, 1103 3 Ave. N.

The University of Lethbridge has several events lined up this week that may be of interest to your readers, viewers and listeners. Members of the media who are interested in covering these events are encouraged to contact the individual event organizer directly. Life Balance Fair Wednesday, Oct. 30, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., indoor track, 1st Choice Savings Centre

Halloween brings about some scary situations but nothing that rivals the horror of losing your identity to thieves. Information Technology Services at the University of Lethbridge is here to help by once again partnering with Lethbridge Mobile Shredding to offer free shredding of personal paper materials, hard-drive degaussing and e-waste recycling to the public. WHAT: Nightmare on Shred Street 4 – The Shred Master free shredding and e-waste collection event WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Media are invited to speak with two University of Lethbridge employees and one City of Lethbridge employee who used their vacation time to help with recovery efforts in The Bahamas. Who — Eric Foster, team lead with U of L Campus Safety, Nolan Meyer, the U of L’s emergency preparedness coordinator, and Leah Parker, radio systems coordinator with the City of Lethbridge, are available to talk about their experiences.

Graduate students in biophysics at the University of Lethbridge have joined their counterparts at the University of Montana in Missoula to form the first student Biophysical Society chapter in Western Canada, and the first that spans borders. The connection across the Canada-United States border came about since one of the chapter sponsors, Dr. Borries Demeler, a U of L professor, is cross-appointed at the University of Montana.

Robotics is a transformative technology, and within the coming decade, we’ll likely have smart and helpful machines that will exist alongside us at home and in the workplace. Those machines should, quite literally, do what we tell them to do. That is, we should be able to communicate our goals to robotics systems in the same way we interact with other people; we should be able to talk to robots. However, there’s a significant problem: most robots can’t hear.

The University of Lethbridge has several events lined up this week that may be of interest to your readers, viewers and listeners. Members of the media who are interested in covering these events are encouraged to contact the individual event organizer directly. Annual UVolunteer Fair Wednesday, Oct. 23, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Atrium, 1st Choice Savings Centre